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I've told the story before.
Back in the mid 1990's I was in a Salsa outfit called Mambo 9. There were nine of us of course.
We decided we each should have an assigned "Mambo number"
I ended up as Mambo 4

I recently stumbled across and old demo CD of 3 of our songs, been listening on my commute.

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It's an obscure Mystery Science Theater 3000 reference. In one host segment, they were trying to make up action hero names by combining a manly first name with a tough material for a last name, and "Dirk Tungsten" is one they came up with.
 
By a dark past i was guitarist and absolute fan of one guitar: Gibson Les Paul; signature model from the great Lester Polfus (Lester william Polsfuss; following sources).
So i added and compressed with the 3 first letters from my first name, which is already my nickname IRL "Ste"

I'm Polfuste